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Les questionnements que posent aujourd'hui les « sans domicile fixe » n'ont jamais été aussi saillants, et symbolisent de façon aiguë la fracture sociale. Quel est leur nombre, leur profil socio-économique, leur trajectoire biographique, leur vie quotidienne ? Quels sont les modes d'intervention mis en place pour leur venir en aide ? Autant de points qui donnent lieu à schématisation et idées reçues que cet ouvrage s'attache à déconstruire. Résultat d'une étude ambitieuse mêlant recherche et terrain, ce livre donne à voir la réalité du monde de la rue. Car c'est en observant ce qui se cache derrière le mot SDF que l'on pourra ajuster l'action sociale aux transformations contemporaines de la pauvreté. Thibaut Besozzi est docteur en sociologie et chercheur associé au Laboratoire lorrain de sciences sociales (2L2S : Université de Lorraine) et au Centre d'études et de recherches sur les emplois et les professionnalisations (CEREP : Université de Reims Champagne Ardenne). Ses recherches ethnographiques portent sur l'espace urbain, la marginalité urbaine et le travail social.

Marginality, Social.

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Social exclusion of minority groups is an intractable problem in many diverse nations. For some minority groups this means going to segregated schools, for others not having access to gainful employment or quality healthcare. But why does social exclusion persist, and what can one do to stop it? This book proposes a theory of how individual behavior contributes to social exclusion, a novel method for measuring that behavior, and solutions to ending it. Based on original fieldwork among Central and Eastern European Roma, the largest ethnic minority in Europe (yet still very understudied), and non-Roma, Ana Bracic develops a theory she calls the exclusion cycle, through which anti-minority culture gives rise to discrimination by members of the majority, and minority members develop survival strategies. Members of the majority resent these strategies, assuming that they are endemic to the minority group rather than an outcome of their own discriminatory behavior. To illustrate her theory, Bracic includes an analysis of a video game she created that simulates interactions between Roma and non-Roma participants, which members of these groups played through avatars (thereby avoiding contentious face-to-face interactions). The results demonstrate that majority members discriminate against minority members even when minority group members behave in ways identical to the majority. It also shows the way in which minority members develop survival mechanisms. Bracic draws on the results of the simulation to offer evidence that this cycle can be broken through NGO-promoted discussion and interaction between groups. She also draws on extant scholarship on interactions between Muslim women in France, African Americans, the Batwa in Uganda, and their respective majority communities.

Marginality, Social --- Marginality, Social --- Romanies --- Discrimination.

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"This book is an antidote to the forms of American nationalism, masculinity, exceptionalism, and self-anointed prowess that are currently being flexed on the global stage. Through a fascinating combination of ethnographic research across seven US states and the application of postcolonial, anti-racist, feminist and poststructuralist theories, Land, God, and Guns reveals how time-honoured rites of passage associated with taken-for-granted notions of manhood in the American Heartland are constitutive of a constellation of colonial worldviews, capitalist logics, gender essentialisms, ethnocentric religious beliefs, jingoistic populism, racial animus, and embodied violence. A constellation that, within the US, upholds a heteropatriarchal and racist ordering of life that both privileges and ultimately damages its main proliferators ? white settler men. This is a detailed work that at once unravels rural white settler masculinity and the US state at their roots, whilst demonstrating why any analysis of the cultural production and social practice of masculinity in the United States must take into account the country's historical trajectories of imperialism, land dispossession, nation-state building, enslavement, extractive accumulation and valorisation of masculinist assertions of dominance."-- Provided by publisher.

Marginality, Social. --- Marginality, Social --- Religious aspects.

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The essays in this volume explore the ways rights were available to those in the margins of society. By tracing pivotal judicial concepts such as ‘right of necessity’ and ‘subjective rights’ back to their medieval versions, and by situating them in unexpected contexts such as the Franciscans’ theory of poverty and colonization or today’s immigration and border control, this volume invites its readers to consider whether individual rights were in fact, or at least in theory, available to the marginalized. By focusing not only on the economically impoverished but also those who were disenfranchised because of disability, gender, race, religion or infidelity, this book also sheds light on the relationship between the early history of individual rights and social justice at the margins. Contributors are: Wim Decock, Heikki Haara, Virpi Mäkinen, Alejandra Mancilla, Julia McClure, Ilse Paakkinen, Mikko Posti, Jonathan Robinson, John Salter, Pamela Slotte, and Jussi Varkemaa.

Human rights. --- Marginality, Social.

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Les SDF se trouvent à la rue, sous des tentes, dans des centres d'hébergement, au centre de multiples controverses. Mais de qui et de quoi parle-t-on exactement ? Combien sont-ils ? Quels sont les impacts de la crise migratoire ? Que faire face aux campements et aux enfants mendiants ? Que penser d'un objectif comme "zéro SDF" ? Toutes ces interrogations appellent moins de sensationnel et davantage d'examen rigoureux. C'est ce que propose Julien Damon dans cet ouvrage, par le biais d'un panorama des connaissances sur une population se trouvant au coeur des interrogations individuelles sur les évolutions sociales contemporaines comme au centre des interrogations collectives sur les priorités et l'efficacité des politiques publiques. Une lecture instructive sur un sujet essentiel.

Homeless persons --- Homeless persons --- Homelessness --- Marginality, Social